Working schemes for REDD, which stands for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation and allows the sale of credits to offset carbon pollution elsewhere, are few and far between now. But a climate deal including REDD could be a potent tool to

A £25,000 project has started to explore more eco-friendly ways of preventing severe river flooding in North Yorkshire.

The Mississippi Delta is the world's seventh largest river delta. But we are losing these wetlands at an alarming rate. 80 years of national actions to channelize and control the Mississippi River for economic development and navigation have diverted se

Rising temperatures are robbing polar bears of vital habitat and melting the sea ice they use for hunting and raising their cubs. In response, the Interior Department has announced a proposal to designate more than 200,000 square miles of critical

An expedition this year made by 32 leading conservation photographers has resulted in a portfolio of hundreds of images that show the natural beauty and conservation challenges facing the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico, an area known as the heart of the

An estimated $4 million worth of hay has spontaneously combusted, animals at the zoo are being sprayed with water and politicians are clashing over water restrictions - Adelaide's heatwave is getting to everyone. Authorities are also concerned about healt

JUST months - that's how long it took for Europe to be engulfed by an ice age. The scenario, which comes straight out of Hollywood blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow, was revealed by the most precise record of the climate from palaeohistory ever generated

Black, green, yellow, red - not the colours of a traffic signal but the amazing variety of Hawaiian beaches. Yes, in certain areas of the islands, you will find beaches with sand in all these colours... and we got incredible pictures to prove it.

Researchers have discovered a fossil skeleton that appears to link the earliest dinosaurs with the large plant-eating sauropods.

Gliding through the oceans like ghosts, these mysterious manta rays have been captured in unique footage filmed off the coast of Mozambique.